In her third column installment, Burtner draws on Sylvia Plath’s ‘sad girl poetry’ to understand the political madness of ...

says Stalina. For the collective, poetry is inseparable from politics. Through their Facebook page and website, Poetria has ...

“Poetry can be deeply political but that does not mean one has to shout ... “So I say in the introduction of ‘Wild Women’ ...

Orlando Reade’s fascinating history of John Milton’s epic shows that Paradise Lost may still be a poem for our times, writes ...

Beloved lesbian feminist Dorothy Allison, the author of Bastard Out of California, has passed away at age 75. An obituary ...

You might think that a novelist who works in more than one language would want language itself to become conceptual, ...

Warfare, literature, education, and politics were long the purview of men before these five notable Latin American women made their voices heard. Many of them defied societal gender norms, facing ...

"Do not put such unlimited power into the hands of the husbands. Remember all men would be tyrants if they could.” ...

She wrote lovingly and often hilariously about her harrowing childhood in a working-class Southern family, as well as about the violence and incest she suffered.

Scientific literature tends to treat the mind and body as separate entities, but humanistic works capture the psychological effects of cancer—loneliness, grief and anxiety. By narrating the emotional ...

I begin the Art Diary with exhibitions by artists with whom I have some former connections, starting with some I have ...

I was struck by how Giovanni used figurative language and imagery from a recent trip to Africa to uplift the powerful nature of being a Black woman. Her poems became a gateway, leading me to other ...